B.F. Kuhns Beitrag zur Gletscherkunde vor 200 Jahren
"B. F. Kuhn's contribution to the knowledge of glaciers 200 years ago". An extensive summary of Kuhn's essay "An Attempt on the Mechanism of Glaciers" is given with ample citations. He shows a remarkable insight into conditions and processes that make a glacier. Without...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | deu |
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Copernicus Publications
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| Series: | Geographica Helvetica |
| Online Access: | http://www.geogr-helv.net/42/147/1987/gh-42-147-1987.pdf |
| Summary: | "B. F. Kuhn's contribution to the knowledge of glaciers 200 years ago". An extensive summary of Kuhn's essay "An
Attempt on the Mechanism of Glaciers" is given with ample citations.
He shows a remarkable insight into conditions and
processes that make a glacier. Without using the following
terms he describes metamorphism, the accumulation-ablation
area concept, mass transport, glacier movement, formation of
moraines and glacier variations in logical order. His glacier-flow
mechanism by cavity collapse at the bed is a weak point, but
the glacier-tremor reported in context deserves recognition: so
does the essay as a whole. |
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| ISSN: | 0016-7312 2194-8798 |